Jim Ball - The Cincinnati Insurance Company
Jim Ball is the Quality Assurance Auditor at The Cincinnati Financial Corporation.
Jim Ball is the Quality Assurance Auditor at The Cincinnati Financial Corporation. He is a software tester and passionate testing advocate with 16 years of experience in testing software, mentoring testers, and developing effective processes and procedures. Jim believes that testing is a scientific art that requires critical thinking, effective communication, patience, and a great deal of flexibility in order to deliver value to the stakeholder.
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Frank Heise - PTA Consulting
Frank Heise is the Head of Quality Services, PTA GmbH.
Frank Heise is the Head of Quality Services, PTA GmbH. He has supported over 20 years of experience supporting projects in the capacity of the project leader and test manager. He is currently responsible for the services and activities related to quality assurance with PTA. PTA is the German partner of Inflectra.
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Bob Johnston - Critical Logic
Bob Johnston is the CEO of Critical Logic.
Bob Johnston has been with Critical Logic since 2006 serving as CTO and now CEO. Bob has broad experience in software development and automated QA. He has been primarily responsible for creating and delivering software technology to support large and small testing projects and overseeing testing services implementation.
Bob has over 30 years of experience as a developer, consultant and executive in a wide variety of projects. He has helped founded 3 consulting firms most recently Critical Logic, Inc. He has more than 10 years experience implementing automated testing systems in many clients in a variety of industries. He has held positions from programmer to manager, in technical, testing and user-related projects.
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Neil Price-Jones - NVP Software
Neil Price-Jones is the founder and the Senior Quality Assurance Analyst at NVP Software Solutions.
Neil Price-Jones has 34 years of experience in software testing in a variety of areas like financial systems, telecommunications systems, and pension administration. In 1993, Neil founded NVP Software Testing to provide testing expertise to numerous organizations. He has made presentations to many software quality organizations including the Kitchener Waterloo Software Quality Association (KWSQA) as well as the Toronto Association for System & Software Quality (TASSQ). He has trained many clients in the financial, provincial government, health and insurance sectors in Software Testing and various certifications.
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Remco Putker - Robust IT
Remco is the founder and owner of Robust IT in the Netherlands.
Remco is the founder and owner of Robust IT in the Netherlands. He is a result-driven hands-on ICT (project) manager with roots in Quality and Testing. He believes in getting the job done within time and budget but without concessions on quality or loss of employee satisfaction. Remco started in 1999 as a consultant but progressing quickly to IT-management positions in various multinational corporations. He has worked independently since 2014 and is currently the owner of three companies. He is passionate about DIY, cooking, and sailing.
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Henrik Rexed - Neotys
Henrik is a Performance Engineer at Neotys.
Henrik is a Performance Engineer at Neotys, a leading provider of load testing software. He has been orchestrating and conducting performance tests for over 15 years, delivering projects in all contexts including extremely large Cloud testing on the most demanding business areas such as trading applications, Video on Demand, sports websites, etc. Since 2017, he has led the Performance Advisory Council created by Neotys. Since its beginning, the PAC aims to promote engagement between various experts from around the world. They meet annually to create a sharing of relevant, value-added content.
Prior to Neotys, Henrik worked as a .NET architect for Logica and Performance testing expert on large accounts in a variety of industries including insurance, car industry, retail, and energy. Amongst the numerous initiatives he worked on, Henrik has built the performance Center of Excellence (CoE) handling load testing of all the European branches of a major insurance company.
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Hugo Sanchez - Coveros
Hugo Sanchez is a Managing Consultant with Coveros.
Hugo Sanchez is a Managing Consultant with Coveros, Inc., a software company that helps organizations build, test, and deliver secure, reliable software applications using agile methods. Hugo has over 20 years of software development, software assurance, project management, and product management experience with a wide range of software products and applications. He is an accomplished Product Management & Project Delivery professional with a successful track record of providing complete lifecycle management of “whole” products, families of products, and infrastructure projects. Hugo has experience running Agile teams and delivering projects on time and on budget in the face of organizational challenges and market dynamics.